Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story began in October 1962 when the students discovered by accident a code number which, when dialed, enabled them to bypass the familiar operator who asks long distance callers the number which should be billed for the call...
...another correspondent's sunglasses, fiddled with a photographer's camera, and ordered General Abdul Haris Nasution, whom he had fired as Defense Minister last February, to help a female reporter down from a railing. "There is no new light in Indonesia," Sukarno beamed with all his old familiar wattage. "There is the same light." Strolling out of a meeting of his Crush Malaysia Command, he shrugged off the army's talk of peace and snapped that "confrontation will continue with Malaysia, both political and military...
...bank, turned it upside down so that it would permit blood flow in the proper direction, and stitched it in place. There was little danger of transplant rejection, because heart-valve tissue has a negligible blood supply. Last week, two months after her operation, Mrs. Wilmer used the most familiar housewifely way to show how well she felt. She baked a cake...
...surefire segment that required about as much daring as kicking a dog around, Paar showed familiar film clips of campaigners working themselves silly: Thomas E. Dewey with citizens dressed as cavemen, Indians adopting Coolidge, John F. Kennedy kissing a baby, and a wanly smiling candidate ascending in a balloon bearing the immortal legend: SCRANTON'S ON THE RISE...
They filled out questionnaires, rating fields with which they were familiar. Each field at each university received one of six ratings, from "distinguished" to "not sufficient to provide acceptable doctoral training...